There is never a good time to write a novel, writes Suzanne Harrington

Author Emma Grey woke up to the preciousness of life when her husband died from a heart attack. Here she tells Áilín Quinlan the secret to achieving big things is to focus on finding the nooks and crannies in your day.

Though with not a trace of Irish blood in him novelist Jeffrey Archer likes to be known as a seanchaí, a description he first encountered when chatting with a tramp in Dublin. This time round, he chats with Sue Leonard. 

IT’S a little difficult to know what exactly Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin’s first book, Me and My Mate Jeffrey, actually is. 

DON DELILLO’S 16th novel arrives after a six-year pause for thought which initially appears to have zero effect on theme or form.

A sexual harassment lawsuit has been filed against singer Elton John.

Another powerful role has Julianne Moore playing a real-life policewoman who campaigned for the rights of same-sex partners, writes Helen Barlow

Ger Cunningham has called for a revamp of the All-Ireland U21 hurling championship, proposing a second chance be afforded to both the defeated Leinster and Munster finalists.

What's on telly? UEFA and benefits and movies galore.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the horrific murder of a teenager who was beaten to death with an axe.

ENGLAND: A fox cub has undergone a delicate procedure to remove a plastic tub which became stuck round its neck in a seaside town.

A jailed murderer punched a female nurse in the face as she went to give him medication in his cell yesterday.

Pennsylvania parents locked son in car boot to cure fear of dark

Businessman Jeffrey Stokes, his wife and two sons are being pursued at the Commercial Court for €14.7m summary judgement orders arising from loans and guarantees.

Tracy Morgan has sued Wal-Mart over last month’s car crash that seriously injured him and killed a fellow comedian.

Representatives of some of the world’s biggest corporations and institutions are among Ireland’s most powerful women, according to an awards ceremony organised by the Women’s Executive Network.

The father of a man killed in an unprovoked attack is to make a direct appeal on television tonight to a person who claims to have information about the killing.

Rihanna is being asked to tone down her image so she can be made into a cartoon character.

The father of a teenager beaten to death in an un-provoked attack, has written to Alan Shatter begging him to help get justice for his murdered son.

Barack Obama embarrassingly referred to George Osborne as “Jeffrey” during G8 meetings this week.

A “psychotic” former financier blew millions of dollars on presents for strangers, including luxury cars and cash gifts, while Bank of America failed to raise concerns, a lawsuit in New York claims.

Long Run is set to make his first visit to Ireland for the tote.com Punchestown Gold Cup on April 24.

Elle Macpherson is engaged.

Things go bump in the night, repeatedly, in Andy Muschietti’s unsettling ghost story.

One of the biggest weddings ever witnessed in Kerry saw a member of the famous Healy-Rae political dynasty tie the knot with his long-time sweetheart on Saturday.

A triple killer from Co Armagh who died in jail of septicaemia had refused outside medical treatment, a report revealed today.

A Tipperary woman who has passed away aged 105 put her long life down to having a glass of wine and a dance every day, her family said yesterday.

SCORES of Limerick children gathered at Villiers school yesterday for a mind-challenging Easter camp.

FIRST it was Gerry, now it’s Jeffrey. Hot on the heels of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams’s move to Leinster House, a long-standing member of the Ulster Unionist Party has announced plans to run in the Seanad elections.

Garda witnesses in the case of two Dublin brothers on trial for murdering a young father, have told the jury they responded to an emergency call saying “there's murder in Tyrone Place with Christy Maughan.”

An eye witness in the case of two Dublin brothers on trial for murder has told the jury one of the men said to the other “we need to finish him off” after they had attacked and beaten her neighbour.

The State Pathologist has told the trial of brothers Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell, that the man they're accused of murdering died from a stab wound that severed major blood vessels in his leg causing massive blood loss.

The wife of a man stabbed to death in Inchicore in Dublin five years ago has told the Central Criminal Court she pleaded with his attackers to stop.

A RESTAURANT company with five outlets and around 225 jobs has gone into liquidation, but is aiming to continue trading via its liquidator with the businesses to be offered for sale as going concerns.

WASHINGTON’S envoy to Iraq has condemned WikiLeaks as “absolutely awful” as world capitals braced for the looming release of three million sensitive diplomatic cables by the whistleblower website.

MI6 HAS lifted somewhat the veil of secrecy that has surrounded its operations for the past century with the publication of the first authorised history of the service.

LEROY DUMBRELL — the younger brother of Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell, who last month were granted a rehearing of their murder trial — is to ask a High Court judge to release him from solitary confinement in Castlerea Prison.

The Court of Criminal Appeal will today outline its reasons for overturning the murder conviction of two Dublin brothers.

The Democratic Unionist Party was today accused of using 16th-century propaganda to oppose plans to allow heirs to the British throne to marry Catholics.

Moviemaker Oliver Stone has hinted the summer bar brawl that landed his 'W' stars Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright behind bars was racially charged.

PRISON bosses may consider moving a notorious murderer into a secure isolation unit due to be opened next week.

A MAN accused of murder said he did not mean to kill or seriously injure another man when he stabbed him six times.

Two brothers have pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in Dublin two years ago.